Why the Ruins of Persepolis (Iran) is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World

Culture Trip ^ | May 2017 | Pontia Fallahi

[CondoleezzaProtege]

[C19fan]

I love Trump but when he tweeted about attacking cultural sites this is the first image came to my mind. Everything so fat has been a smashing success but Trump made a minor unforced error.

[a fool in paradise]

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[gr8eman]

You go...c’mon...give it to me. We shouldn’t attack Iran because (insert excuse here)! Orange man bad?...that didn’t work, because of culture, history or something? Because Valerie Jarret will start breaking more mirrors from a scowl. The list is endless. I want the excuses...c’mon man!

[fhayek]

Tourism in Iran. Yeah, not going to happen...

[bagman]

I recall that Kyoto was removed from the atomic bomb target list due to its cultural significance.

We don’t attack cultural targets. Per the Laws of War, a target must have military significance.

[existentially_kuffer]

BTW, what were the historical sites destroyed by the mullah’s because they were deemed “idolism”?

[Jamestown1630]

So, I guess that means that areas of ‘cultural significance’ are great places to hide some pretty nefarious stuff.

I suspect that there was more than a little ‘code’ in Trump’s statement.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Trump walks in, hat pulled low and says, “Nice Persepolis ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it . . .”

[cyclotic]

America would only target their cultural sites if they were harboring missiles or other munitions

[Long Jon No Silver]

And if the cultural site has a sophisticated missile batteries housed in its confines, what then?

[chris37]

I don’t give even the slightest rip.

What am I supposed to do, go on a sight seeing trip to Iran?

I bet they have cool cultural sights in Hell too, doesn’t mean I ever want to see them or care about them at all.

[Openurmind]

If you go look at this on Google Earth, it really is quite a complex. and there are surrounding areas still not excavated.

[yarddog]

I bet it was something in it’s day.

Was it Persepolis or Babylon that Alexander burned then regretted it?

[pfony1]

Really?

Your first thought of “cultural sites” in Iran was Persepolis?

My first thought was the Mausoleum of Khomeini and the nuclear labs located beneath it...

IMHO, the jihadis are masters of placing their weapon dumps beneath hospitals, schools, orphanages, mosques and whatever else can serve as a “shield” for their cheating ways.

[Verginius Rufus]

"Persepolis" is the Greek name for the place ("polis" is a Greek word). For the Greeks, the Persians were "the barbarians" par excellence. The opening sentence of Herodotus' Histories tells us that he intends to tell of the great deeds of the Greeks, on the one hand, and of the barbarians, on the other hand...culminating, of course, in the great Persian invasion of Greece in 480 B.C.

[xp38]

For some reason I doubt the ancients who built Persepolis respected the cultural sites of others. We know Islam respects no other culture currently. Numerous examples exist. The left is similar. I’m willing to respect a cultural site up to a point but not unconditionally.

[Tucker39]

I think the biggest mistake we can make is to ascribe the greatness that once was the Persian Empire to these muslim goons who are currently lording over it. Only after a total overthrow of islam and all it stands for, can there be any hope of returning to anything great.

[Bikkuri]

I have to remember that this city existed more than 7,000 years before Islam was invented...

[Bikkuri]

“I have to = “you have to”;
Tried speaking into mic instead of typing... >,<